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PRESTO
THE WILSON GUARANTEE
January 6, 1923.
handle the Edison Chippendale, Victor No. 17,
Cheney No. 6 and other large makes from showroom
to any apartment floor.
It Is Accepted by a Host of Professionals and Re-
liable Dealers Everywhere.
The drums and drummers' supplies manufactured
by the Wilson Bros. Mfg. Co., 210 to 222 N. May
street, Chicago, are made for the profession, but are
sold through the dealers. It is a merchandising fact New and Old Concerns Secure Charters in Various
Places.
well known to the trade and profession. In fact,
"Order through your dealer" is a Wilson Bros. Mfg.
Herbert Piano Co., Bronx, New York; $50,000; H.
Co. phrase well known and generally obeyed by the T. and W. C. and J. D. Ohlsen, Sr,, 7528 Morris ave-
men in the bands and orchestras. Bandsmen realize nue, Bronx.
the advantages of having a reliable dealer as inter-
A merger announcement is: Bloomingdale Piano
mediary. The drum manufacturer, the dealer and the Company, Arcade Realty Company and Walters
ultimate consumer find equal satisfaction in the ar- Piano Company, Manhattan, with Bloomingdale
rangement that the slogan suggests. Obeying "Order Bros.
through your dealer" always has pleasurable results.
The Mogul Electric Co., New York; to deal in
Wilson drums and accessories are known from one radio goods; $5,000; J. P. Mirandy, S. M. Knaoo and
end of the country to the other, and it is an ad- L. Wilder.
mited fact in the music profession that pleasure in
A. Schochet, New York; to deal in phonographs;
their use goes with the possession of a Wilson drum $40,000; A. Schochet, D. Lerman and A. Mintz.
or a drummer's accessory.
The L. Meier & Sons Co., Cleveland, O., recently
The Wilson guarantee is something that "goes" celebrated its twenty-fifth year in the talking ma-
with the great host of professionals who use Wilson chine business.
drums, with the old dealer customers of the company
The American Andioscope Co., New York; to
and with the new piano merchant customers who manufacture talking machines; $300,000; E. F. Reis,
have found that the addition of Wilson products A. Y. Hansen and L. Zolla.
means new customers, greater profits and more sales.
The Simple A Radio Corp., New York; to deal in
radio supplies; $10,000; L. R. Carajat, A. R. Desantos
A POTENT POSTER.
and W. F. McHood.
A poster that stimulates desire in the average boy
is the "Champion Drummer Boys" of America pro-
GOOD STRING TRADE.
vided for music dealers by Ludwig & Ludwig, drum
Indications
the first of the year for the business
makers to the profession, Chicago. It is an interest- in bass strings at are
unusually encouraging, according
ing bit of store and window attractiveness and deal- to the Schaff Piano String Co., Chicago, which has
ers will hardly need the suggestion "Paste in the kept the factory running at full speed during the
Window" to do so. The group of portraits includes holidays, with a minimum of two days off for inven-
Joseph A. Richardvill of the famous Jones Boy Band tory- "Just how the orders will be will depend on
of Vincennes, Ind., a sturdy little chap who looks what piano manufacturers find in their inventories,"
not more than six years old; George Patterson, a an official of the company said, '"but we are sure to
famous juvenile drummer of Patterson, N. J.; Michael be busy for some time with our back orders. None
J. Howe, Los Angeles, Calif., eight-year-old cham- of them are being cancelled."
pion of the Pacific Coast, and Master Rich, Brook-
lyn, four-year-old drummer entour with Greenwich
COPPER PRICES.
Village Follies, the greatest juvenile drummer in the
The effect of the mounting price of copper is one
world. These juvenile champions are noted for their
military band and orchestral drumming ability and all of uncertainty to piano wire manufacturers and other
industries using the material. Though the copper
use Ludwig drums.
market has reached 14c, it is not fived there as se-
curely as it might be, as some sales continue at I3%c
LABOR SAVERS.
Most producers are willing to sell at the
Foremost among the labor savers in the piano re- delivered.
present
price
for delivery through the first quar-
tailers' business are the trucks made by the Self' ter, and a few level
will
make a delivery well into second
Lifting Piano Truck Co., Findlay, O. In fact, no quarter.
dealer's equipment is complete without the trucks
made by the company for handling pianos and talk-
A STEINMETZ DEVICE.
ing machines. The line comprises sill trucks and
end trucks for pianos and the Lea talking machine
The pallophotophone is the name of the new de-
truck. Most progressive piano houses are aware of vice invented by Charles P. Steinmetz, the wizard of
the uses and advantages of the piano trucks, but some the General Electric Company, New York, which is
new hpuses in the talking machine business have yet designed for "photographing" the voice to synchro-
to learn of the merits of the talking machine truck. nize with moving pictures. The pallophotophone has
With the Lea 'talking machine truck one man can introduced into radio broadcasting an entirely new
element, the possibility of making a master record of
a speech and of broadcasting it days or weeks later
from scores of radio sending stations.
NEW INCORPORATIONS
IN MUSIC GOODS TRADE
Dividends
Declared!
BUSY IN KENTON, O.
The musical merchandise business of the Albert
Fink Music Co., Kenton, O., has been extended to
include a large variety of imported goods. The
house has built up a very satisfactory business in
orchestra and band instruments of American manu-
facture. The firm has devised a scheme of advertis-
ing to make known its new departure to the pros-
pective buyers in its territory.
Dealers, E V E R Y -
W H E R E , declare
that Clark Orchestra
Rolls produce bigger
dividends from electric
pianos than other
makes of electric rolls.
TALKING MOVIE LECTURE.
The first showing of the lecturing movie in New
York was given in the lecture hall of the Radio
Show, at the Grand Central Palace recently. The
lecture, originally delivered several weeks ago by
a Western Electric engineer, was recorded electric-
ally on a phonograph disc. At the exhibition, the
audience heard at the proper instant the explanation
of a moving picture which they saw on the screen.
A Safe Investment
CLARK ORCHESTRA ROLL CO.
DeKalb, 111.
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
Many New Names Appear in Musical Instrument
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
A well planned music roll department has been
added by the Van De Walle Music Co., Seymour,
Ind.
Satisfaction with sales in its music roll department
is. freely expressed by the Pacific Music Co., San
Francisco.
Music rolls are given considerable attention in the
music department of the Smith, Metzger & Wright
Co., Warren, Pa. The department was recently ac-
quired by G. Gifford Smith, who means to operate it
as a separate unit under the firm name of G. Gifford
Smith, Inc.
Miss L. McGhee is the new manager of the record
department of the Martin Music Store, Springfield,
Mo. Miss McGhee was formerly with the Lehman
Piano Co., St. Louis.
Lorene Riley has taken charge of the roll depart-
ment of the music department of Meier & Frank,
Portland, Ore., and with Wm. G. Woodward the
manager of the department is planning to put in a
complete stock of Ampico rolls in both the classical
and popular. Miss Riley has ben in charge of the
roll department of Sherman, Clay & Co., of Portland,
for the past four years.
PREPARE FOR FOREIGN TRADE.
More than 3,000 students in high schools through-
out" the country are taking foreign trade as a major
study, according to Glen Levin Swiggart, specialist
in commercial education and chairman of the Com-
mittee of Fifteen, at a foreign service training con-
ference last week at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago.
Representatives of various universities teaching com-
mercial subiects were in attendance at the conference.
A continuation of black walnut as a favorite wood
for veneers and solid uses is anticipated from the
lively demand for walnut logs in all the Missouri
and Tennessee points .noted for shipping the
products.
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interests of our dealers have
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estimation of the musical mer-
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country. If you are not a mem-
ber of the Tonk family, an initial
order will convince you of the
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